Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 13, 1874, Page 9

‘THE CIVIL SERYICE, ‘Workings of {ho Fresont System. of Compotitive Examination, :Petty Technical Knowledge:Preferred »to} ‘Business Ability. The Potent Influences .of Favor~ itism.and Bribery. e it ‘Six Appointments from the East to One from the West. . Wasnrxarox, Juno 8, 1874, b the Ealtor of The Chicaga Tribune 3 8in: Itis Inte, probably, to deal agy further " biowa at that moribund ‘institution known an Civil-Bervico Roform, ‘It hins como to the Himo whon 1t hing Ecarcoly nny observance In fact, nnd -{t'1s understood-that tho donation or approprin- ‘tion of -§25,000-to pny-thio snlarios of Examiuors, swhich-was tohave -boon-rocommended, has been | Xilled in committoo, and -that tho thingwill, -4heroforo, die, Tor very Iack -of sustensnce, on | the 1at prox. It -caunot dio too eoon. T6-line | dovoloped, in'tho course of timo,:into & gigantic | opportunily for tho display of potty corruption, brivory, and favoritlam, until it may bo said that .appointments and.promotions undor the rules.of +Civil Horvico ropt entirely .in the hauds of the +Ohiof Olorks.and theirfrionds.and tho Printing- Offico boys. It is atili possiblo that tho appro- printion for carrying on this logalizod farcy may como 1p in somo othor shapo and ;bo passed, Ho thnt somo exarmination into:the syatem as it now works-may bo an approprinte subject-for o brief lottor to Tue TRIBDUNE. The system, it will bo romombored, was basod upon tho proprigty of o ' GENEBAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION for placea in ‘tho -Government omploy. -** Lot _thio bost man win,” was ¢ho taking idoa Buggost- pd. At tho ontsot, this sooms adair proposition ; but, tho truth i, that;tne :applicant, in,orderto win undor the plan . adopted, must prodnce avi- dence, not thatho has hadbusiness-experionce, that ho is rondy, accurato, quick to learn, com= petent to moet .omorgoncies and .understand _complicated aifairs, but that ho is able:to.answer off-haud.a sorles of trifling teohnical questions, remoto from his exporlenco and knowledge, and not connectod in'_ any way with the' duties that are to bo assumed. The Inofliciency of so-oalled education to.preparo a youth for actuul business- i:ru s often .boen commented upon, and tho eat educutors in our Jand aro duily departing from the .routino form which asks that.children should .ewaliow "books by tho .cord, but learn mo rinciple aud orlgiuate o thought. In this instance, the Govornmoent has slded with tho old-tino podagogup, sud Insists that the abilily.to answor technical questions as :to tho cxnct Jocation of a river, orthe Dboundary *‘of a Stute, 8 a botter evidenco of .ability 1n tho applicant thau oxperionce in tho conduct -of sincss, howovor varled it may have. been, Now, our Wostorn youtlt possess adapiability in a superior -degroe, and thoydo not neatly oqual the young men of:the East in merg book- learning. ‘Gonorally the Eastern applicant comes frosh from coiloga or tosching, The Westorn youtls from the stare or warehopso. The lattor mako good business-men in any sphora, aud, for tho most part, possess moro solf-rollance .and ebility in the conduct of nflairs than the collego- brod man ; but 8o obtude,:whather willfully or not, -to-this -fact aro the Board of Examiners, that tho rolativo numbar of appointments from -tho.West ond Host is ns | ONE TO BIX,— this being tho direct result of bosing the oxaml- nation upon the posscssiou of techmeal rathor than availablo kuowledgo.* Promation proceeds :undor. the samo intoiligent conception of ability. Clorks - with . tho bost qualities wait npon thoso ‘with tho best .memorios .for trifles. If.tho sya- tom woro to be imposed upon our Reprosonta- tivos in - Congress a8 o test for their morit or ability, our "Wostern delegation would como strooping home in a body, with tho august Presi- dent at their head. ‘But, if tho chnnoos wero equal, another diffi- -oulty-1n the way of seouring n‘mallg compotitive examination is tho power—whicl, ¥ reason of - the many l\]_}pllcntimm made, natarally reverts to tho undor-clorks—of supprossing names, or iu= perting tho names of favorites on -tho englbfln list. This privilego s s0 used as to restore to Departmont -Obiofs, ‘Congress- ten, Hend Clerks, and other persons of influ- enco, all the power which tho -Civil-Sorvico rulos pretended to deprive them of. It is o more question of patromage or iuflnitesimal bribery 4 to who shail como beforo the Committeo at all -for examination,—it being an ensy matter to postpono a namo until tho owner. shuil kave died of old nge, or conrod {o importune for place. In oase of prowmotions of thoso niready in oftico, ono -of tha rules givos the Superintondent or Obiof Clork tho :power to ndd ten-points or less of -merit to tho scalo or standnrd by which pro- ficiency is decidod. Ho can withhold - this mark of 'hit apprabution at his option. It is one of the porquisitos of the pusition, and ‘i8 .oftener sold thun bestowed in rewnrd, /Ihe promotee “.knowe +bororehand -that his applioation-will bo successful, for bo bag * goon "his Chief and di- vided-the upoils. BELLING TILE -QUESTIONS, Tho queations which aro asked of -the various applicants v propared ‘beforabaud_ with pro- ‘found soerecy, aud -thon printod on alips of pa- .por, and, -on' tho day of the oxamination, ar handed to the applicant to answer, Heis sllowed vix hours in-which to reply. During -the time in whicl thoso slips are-boing printed, the-omployes of the Govormmnent Printing-Ofice havo an v{t- «portunity to copy or stosl them. A {nrtmiz it a0, two omployos weros convicted of practicing tliie little game, and thero is uo doubt that many *have secured their appoiutments by buying " the questions of tho printers—thus tecwring tho -powar to raiso their avorage in thoscale of ox- ‘muiination ag high as they chose. This -intro- duces-un opportimity -for ncquiring wonlth end commanding jutlnenco which printers’ devils rarely havo nccorded -to them by a-jonlous and «watehful Republio. -For the most part, thoy hnvo hard worl and no stealings. : WHAT BHHOULD IIE DONE ABOUT IT. If thero is any branch of Government sorvico thut nocds xomodeling, it is the mattor of minor appointments nt Washington, From tho .fere- oty it will be seen that tho Eastorn States en- ?u)‘ two-thirds of-the pntronage-in this direction, -niid thut tho whole systom is rotten to the coro. I'hose who have gono into ofiice under the visions of the almost obsoleto rules retain thew +ploces at-the option of their superiors, For-tha .most part, in new appointmonts the-rules nte ignored,-and an -applicent must now baso his ohances for success upon tho influonco of his ‘bucker. It is possible to romedy -the whole thing, oud it should bo mado tho specinl subjest of ‘Jogislation to thut ond, Bosidos boing unfair to .the Wet, it ia a slipshod system, without lLiead or tail, or purpose of any kind : ‘has vesulted in sbringing about un - irrasponsibillty on the part of uny ono of prominence; and has ‘furnod the clorical coudition of tho Departments into slough of corruption -that {s shamoful in the ‘highest dogree to the wholo country. Y, e mdiebe s Tho Chineso Studenty. The Springfleld (Mass.) Union, ,In nn .articlo mpou the Clineso students in Americs, many ot whow are in Bpringilold .and Huviford, .enys: <#7They aro all-fitting for .our higher grades of ,8cliools, aud will enter our sclontific schools and colloges as soon ad thoy are prapaved -to .do 80, E)ijsb Laisun, the son of Mr, Chan Lialsun, of -this oity, will ontor the Bhofilold sclentific sohool, and Lomuel Yung tho Troy -polytecknio sohool «this year. ‘Lhig 18 cortainly a yront wobiovomont Jfor-boys who have boon in this country only two years, Tho Amorican systom of luutruotion has \mot. with the undivided approval. of the.educated gentlomon in churge of tho studonts, ' aud .thoy -exprast thomsolven thoroughly satisfled with.tho rogress of -their protoges. “Bo .sucacssful, .in nct, hias boon the exporiment m_Awmorien, that Je Chineso Govorymont already:had & plan pro- iJocted :for extonding their educntional eptor- "prisen, and, in tho courso of another :yoar, wjll .sond students to Eugland, Franco, and Gormany Jo bo edpeatad. Al tho Kludonts are . prepairii or Govermmuut sorvice, ,Home yill enter tho iplomatic, some the civil, and others .tho mjli- “lary.and epglnoering dopartments of iho Gov- prument, sud will:bo assignod to their rospeativo ‘Antien in accordunco with their tasto sud flnoss Jfor.one or tho other of thewo distinctive callingy, ‘An offort wilt bo rada in dno Limo to galn a place for some of tho studonts at Wost Loint and Ann- apolis, #o that thoymay gob & complote mili- tury and naval training in connoction with thoe pthor attaluments. Commissiopor Yung Wing, who has boon abigntin China for sevoral months, Ls to revurn shortly, uud will probubly haye sowo farther plans ‘fot tho puplls Lero, Thug fqr thoir courso hns roflected constont credit on thoir country, sud hins made thom not unworthy \oxpmples for our American youth.” S e THE FARM AND GARDEN. TUcrDraiming by Machinery — The Elistory of the Xnvention of the Straddlc=ltow or T Rorso Snlicy= Cultiviitor—2'ho Sluil-less Ont ¥em divivas—Making Vinogar: A Now Humbug—Another Dollor Swindlo— e Wenther, Zrom Our Aarieultural Correapandent, Gitaxratay, 1., Juno 11, 1674, TILE-DIRAINING. Grgiauyna, Tii,, May 28, 1674, Mn, “Ronan¥—8m: T nolica in Tnr TRINUNE of yesterdny, an fnquiry for A machine for tilo-draining, ‘a1 juclosa you dfawings and spcolfications o ono that T Liavo recontly patonted, 'Tlie machiue i 16 foot long, 3% feat wide, wlth forward wheels: 4 foot, It | cats a ditch 12 duchics nt top and 0 at tho Lotlom, and | 40 nches deop, nt the rato of 20 roda an hour,~st tho Fnino timo depositing tho tilo in place, and diteh, Trwo teams arorequired to move it, 11, G, R, . ', B—Wo aro now uning a mold-board nt tho ear, dnd {0 Iny tho furrow ot onoslde; but wo can Iay tho tilo beat from the machine, In looking ovor tho drawings and clnims, I am undor tho improssion that some of thew aro old, end others impracticable, or, nt lonat, of no ffitig the ’n. valao; whito the implemont, as hinted at in tho | postsoript, may be mnde useful. . The Iaying of tilo by lifting the aoil and allow- dng it to Anll back in place may bo possiblo; bub to.do it in a workmenliko manuor is quite puother thing, if not quite out of he question. Thare is a devico £o raise and lower tho machine to suit tho inoquality of the surface. But this is nothing new, for the same thing has boen | pntented, or, at least atiached to the old mola~ drain . maohine, and yebt it did not prove o success, It {8 well known tiat o depres- slon in s molo or tilo drain will Al up with fino sand, and, if tho dopression is oquel to the Lelght of the bore of. tha draly, in timp it will bo fully closed. If this could bo avoidod in the making of mole-drains they would prove quito a success. 1n theory, tho apparatus for rogulating tho dopth looks practicablo; but, a8 tho low land through which the drain s mnde mny have eoft places in it, tho heavy machmo sinks, and tho dopression is at once below the lovel ;.avd after a timo this dopression becomos filled with sand, and tho pressure of tho wator forcea itselfup through tho surfaco, and wo hn & broak, or, as tho farmors call it, o ** burst-uj To say that such a doyice Is of o value would ‘bo Incorreet ; but to say that it fully answers the oud claimed is certainly claiming too much, and something more is required in order to make tho ‘bottom of the drain retain an even grade. Bomo drain-tilo has a-bore of only 1 inch, and tho mosat of it 2 inches, which i .tho .common sizo, Now, it is impossiblo, in noatly lovel land, aud ospocially slonghs, to keop the drain at a , ymlfurm_dnrt . Failing in this, it s uscless lo placo tho tile in puch n drain; for,ina short time, tho sand would ruiu it, Ilonce we mny nlso asauni that tho claim, or dovico, for Inying tho tilo in that sort of drain, is of no valuo. 1o Iny tilo Ih & molo-drain, ou a slmllar plan, is nothing new in the snnals of drainiug on {ho Western prairies; as also to drew 1n narrow strips of foncing in_ordor to ovorcomo the de- prossion,—all of which buve fnilad. Tt iy plain, then, tbat wo must firat open tho ditch .w&)th tho machine, and thon lovel tho hot- tom by Liand, in order to provont any dopression Iay tho kilo, and thon All up with eartl. I doubl very much tho statement.of Mr. R., that tho tilo i8 bost Inid from’ the machine. Tho_laying of the tilo by hand {u the bottom of the ditch is no vary dificult process; for, in order to got at the bottom to level it, tho ditel must bo'cut wider than stated, In the soil of this partof the Stato, o drain 90 Inches deop will answor a good purpose, and about 40 rods of draii to the acro will bo suflicient for tho niost of it, and half or & 1oss distance for tho dryor part of tho landthat avould bo at all henefited by tho uvsp of tilo, Ir Farmer R, is succossful Witk lis machine, 1o will bave to givo up the idon of Iaying tho tilo a8 proposed in his drawings as iu the patent, and fnleuck on discharging ‘tho earth on ono sido of tho ditch, -wmohfim algo claims, and thon lovel up the bottom by hand, lay the ule, whon 1o mny bo ready to fill the ditch by the aid of horac-power. ‘I'io timo Iins ¢omo for & practical display of tile-draining,” Land hag beeome valuablo, -and farm-products command a prico thet will ropny - liboral outiny in ordor to,ucoure good craps, on ull our lands, ~ 1 throw out.these suggostions to Mr. R. and othors who have this subject in hand, with & hope that they il bo received in tho gpirit ' in " which they aro given,—simply pointing out the rocks that shiould’be nvoided. An invention of this kind s a growth, apd not flash of gonius; and we must, therefore, bo pationt and haston more slowly, ‘that wamny succoed in the end. "All similar improvements in agricultural im- plemonts haye boen of slow growth, and dug to great numbsr of men. 5 TILE REATER is o combinatiop of patonts, thongh ono man may have conceived tho genoral iden of tho noed and practicability of the maching, Tbo Scottish purson, Boll, is fonrly forgotten in this connce- tion, 88 he failed 1n putting the idon into suc- cessful practico, and Husdoy took up the iden, ‘but his success was only partiul; his smooth- edged lnifo required o ledgerplno. to cut _ against, o this -ha to Do supplied; and B0 it wos that one thing aftor auother was supplicd, until the machine not only cut,but_made up the bundlos for -binding; and the binding has,leo beon asgayed, but i is,n0t ncomploto success, though wo may be ablo to aunounce this beforo anotlior harvest, Por- haps this lost should -bo qualifiod, for Burson hag ghown that he can bind doy sfter day witlh liis binding-machine ; but ho has not bodh able to teuch tho gront mass of farmors to use It with like succoss, Anothor implemont of almost equal Impor- tanco, THE STRADDLE-IOW CULTIVATOR, hos hod & similur -higtory. ~Outside of tho original iden of Stafford, tho farmor who fnvo it birth, thero is littlo of the form that firat in. spired it. ‘Iho two whoels and tongue are thote, but tho singlo ehovols have dienppsared, nnd cams, doube shovels, and eurions contrivances, ndded to mako it comploto, To all of thoso 4 soat was added, 8o that the boy, tho invalid, the furmor’s daughtor, the ovipple, or tho man with whitoned locks, may Lo .onablod to.go.down through tho long rows, .and accpmplish thng which was before impossible, Tho man who may seo the.noed of some now implomont, and tho man who puts tho idea into practical form, aro both worthy of praiso snd .eutitlod ito record ; but fow of thie firat clary liava everboen its recipients. -Whon young Stat- ford firat conoeived tho idea of the straddle-row cultivator, it is nov probablo that lio lind tho ro- motest idea that it would revolutionize the wholo system of .corn-culture; thnt .the old single- shovel -wonld go .out .of wso, but that two justand of .one,canld bonsed at tho same timo Ly the sameo man,—thus cultivating both sides of the yow at tho same timo. Itis truo that tho -flve-tooth -cultivator was in uso for practicolly the samo.purpose, but that was of too hesvy dranght (for ouo hormo, If ho would con- trive un imploment that could go on both sides of,tha Tpw, 0. that tho tesm that bad boon used to propare the groupd and te do the.plauting should also do the culilvating, the end would bo gaving of labor, aud, ab tho samo time, the do- iug of bottor work, In order to accomplish this, wheols must bo applied. This callod in tho sid of ‘hn Lind wheels of & wagon, with its axlo, to which two of the ald single shovols wore nt- tnched. Who iden was thovo, and was sot forth, though fu a vory.crude form ; bub, lika the in- funt, it could grow, and it grew under the.caro of Fgrmor Slafford, whopo lifo and .goul was given to it, pntil disenso lald him in su eurly «grove, lonving a widow,and soven yonug ohildren without meuns of support. ‘Lhe patent pivates Lud-fesnted on his goniusand Inber; and, if thoy did not foreo-hiim to an carly gravo, thoy kopt him in povorty, 1t wp could go back to tho spmmor of 1842, -ona snull farm in Logan Conuty, we wonld soe young Btafford on -this .orpde cultivator : the JAiind wheols and axloof an old buggy, to which the stift tougue of a twp-Lorse wagon had boan formed,; two lovers:that hold tho singlo-shovel ‘Jlows ;1 ploce of -bonrd, with four logs, fust+ .cnogd t0 the axlp.for s sont § aud young StafTord drivipg his mulos astrido -tho oorn-rows, sud thns cultivating thom, After having opco l"'md over.the Neld of 11 nores, unforviuatgly tho .mulos ran away and -hroke the jmplomont into o mauy plocos that It wag ppst ropajr. Mut the idos was thoye; the im- ploment bad boon glven form; and no Fynawpy mules huvo beon able to ghook ain .growih, ag itin resghing its perfeat state. Look- | ux.nt it.10w an it comas,from the worke all pver he Wost, st wonld eppoar thng Jittle mora can Lo added $o it, and womay, thorefore, proypyuce 1t pratienlly poxfoet, IL.is now thircy-wo yours ainco the idon. was pub.in form, andin all “thet timo it ling baen oqmung to moturity, . 1n ordor 1o show ‘how struitoied woro the financos of the early sottlor in this part of the Bruto, apd the slow progross .of courta, 1 will | tta Distory. " 7 Wostern farming, and tho demand for jmproved imploments wne snfllclont to encourage the hopo of roward for tho tino gud “labor epent on this Invanlipn and tho cultivator was manufagtured and placod ontho markot. Bub the patent sp lwpsd wng dofoctivo, nud bocamo Inoperativa. Bluco tho | thoe qrcn,t ‘gultivator patont ring” has beon on o oo and disnppoarad, and tfo wkdow of . B, Blatford, tho inyeptor, has appliod to tho conrts for an amondment of thoe claims, and nb lass has Deen succewnful, and thus, fljo tho hoitsof Wood's plow Pm’m and othors, ‘{ms boen viudicated, nod hor rlghts roknowladgad, Whilo it is shown -that to the young farmer Stafford is duo tho idos, ivot others have addod to its growtls, and stimu to the implowont that we now uso, Whothor for ridiug or walking, among tho ocost- liest of " thom miighl. Lo named Hall, Dundas, Graon, and Marab, all of whose pppli- entlous for patonta wero rejectod, somo of them baviug Loen filod long before that of Binfford,— thot of Marub, I thiuk, for want of attontion, or. somo dofeat, Tho whole history of thoso early ploncors is ono of continued hardship, growing out of tha povorty of trade aud their ojvn want of funds, At np timo could Eoung Htaflard command {ho funds to pry tho foos of .tho Patout-Offico, and at inst hag to disposo of o fimtol it for that purposs. ‘Lho ides camo tn 842, whon tho first ouitivator was put to work; but It wan ulfih!uon yoars befors tho patont wag lgsued, simply for” the want of fuuds, and the lopo of it yot more por- foct; and now, aftor thirty-two yoars of ‘continued sirugglo, tho pntont is roissuod for o poriod of seéven yoars. Durin, thnt.timo hundrods of patonts have bagn issua for improvements on straddle-row cultivators in oll parts of the Northwoest. What offeat this oW iase of tho two-horso_ cultivator muy have on tho farmer can only bo loft for timo to der tormino; but it isto bo hoped thet it iill not load to o now monopoly. = . TIULL-LESY OATS, It 18 5o long pince wo havo biad & good, zaliablo ogrioultural humbug, like the Norway oat, thap {tis quito rofroshing to sco somothing new, But it is bardly fair to start » thing of thig kind nt tho Wast for the dolectation of tho Eastorn farmer. The following I8 from the Now York Sun, .of which tho roader had botter toke a note, as, though this hull-less ont hos nob | beon vory porsistontly sold nt tho West, yot it is woll 0 bo on our guard : A NEW KIND OF OATS. * Wo have been shown [anys a correspondent of tho Bt, Albaus Messenger] a samplo of ¢ Liull-leas onte,' by Jr. Jacob Binith, of Monitpeller, who is introducing tliem nn seed for field-cultiro in' this State, ‘hey re- samsblo tho common oat after tho hull {8 romoved. In threshing, tho graiu comoes ont of tho hull liko wheat, Torty busliols have been rased ta tho nero af the ‘West, and tho grain w‘fl“ 48 pounds por bushel, The gond wis brouglit to this country n fow years inee by & Inborar from Bolglum, who sawed i, but lott-beforo it was barvested, 80 that nethiug further i kuown of It fs clfmed that tho grasn makes un oxcellent” meal, superfor fo' that ususlly obtained from tho common varleties after Lulling, nud, os this forms quite an dtem of food at preacnt in fhis country, if this now ncquisition can” be ralsed auccesafully, 1t will to very useful for this purpose, as overy farmor can eaally rafso sufliciently for his own uso, at lenst, “As tharo must bo at foabt threa imea iho mount of mealin 4 bushel of thls varloty over thio common kinde, if forty bushels can bo xafsed on on acre, it will be'a profitabla crop to produce, But {ime, Which proves all things, will dotermino its adaptivonoss 40 this country aud te value as a crop,” e do niot bellove that our farmers will bo benofited by auothor # Norway-oat? swindle, or desiro tho dis- somiuation of sny old, Inforior sort of .oats undern now unmo, As our Vermon fcontomporary pnd his neighbor, Mr, Jacob Smith, appear to m,n little in the darit in régord 1o {ho “'bull-fess oata " ncxitioned aboves porlups o littlo Sun-light musy hlp thom to seo and now. something ihie' very Conclont va- Tioty, This hulllesy oat s the old ddvens nuda, or nuked oat ; ul!ofklluwn i old Euglish sgrie culutal works oa the Peoicorn, or Pilcorn oat, It s probably tho oldest varioty.oxtant, and I gupocd to ‘be tho origiual * bread corn ” cultivated by tho au- clent fnbobitants of Britain. 14 woa supereeddd by suporior varloties 4u Buropo fong boforo Vermont be= camno o Btate, an its only merit is hurdines duccs a moderate crop whero other grain would not o ogpectad to thrive, But it huabeon tried over and over again u (his country during the past fifty yours or more, and condemuod’an sccount of the Habhiity of tho gralhs to drop beforo fully ripe busides belng fess produvtive thun the nowor variotius, It s meldom that & half-dozen years pass without this old oat boing Dbrought out,as somothing new and very desirablo} and beforo us [s au advortisement of & Grm fu Wiscque &in, who, in 1871, olfred thissume “ nuked out ? une mpking stuto thut [t was not until 1860 that.a putont-wus obuined for this wow dmplomgnt. Then the wow suilvond-systo bad givon an Bupulye fo dor' the namo of * Bohomfan Oat," for tho very moi- erate prico of 80 conts per.quark, MAKING VINEOAR. Thore is a mau travoling through tho conntry sollivg tho recipo for tho making of vinegar, for which o chargos the Grangors §1 for tho fam- ily-right. It is simply molnsses aud water, with o el ?unnut of aicetio acid from tho druggiat, making thocost of what tho follow calls firat~ closs vinegar, as ho clnims, 10 cants a gallon, Tho fellow alao condeaconds to kell it o tho grocors of our towns ps o now, valuablo dis- coyery. Vinegar may bs mado from pure acotio acld; but, a8 that ig_dorived from viuegar, itstost i too groap for tho purpase. In tho manufacture of vinggar, the alcohol is in pari chguged to acatio acid, or vinagar; and, to obtain this acid Iu o dry state, tho vinogar must bo doprivod of ita acetio acid. .Of course, thero could bo no goin, and only tho loss of labor. For this reason, 0 vinegar-makery now resort to "tho weo of acolic acid far.this purpose. It would bo like the cconomy of cutling up'wholo piecos of cplico for tho mak- ang of .patchwork-quilts,—tho quilt being np bet- tar, though an imwenso amount of labor may Liavo been expended in its metamorphosis, Dussauer, {o his work on tho manufacture .of viuogar, says: * Tho acid oxtracted from puri- flod aeotato of Bodn 1s puror than the commor- cinl ncetio acid mmnufacturod in Germany by saturating the vinegar at 9 per cont made by the quick process with lime. and decomposing tho #nlt of limo by Bultphm‘in acid.” To mukp vin- ogar by the uso of commorcial acetiotacid is too coutly, and tho parties who purt with lheir dol- lar will ‘seo_that thoy arc out of their money, ‘I'ha.chenp vinogar is adulteratod with sulphurio acid, and I8 never mado by the use of acotic agld, Acgtio neid 1 uspd in making whito “load and othor acotates, and is acrived from horh vogetable and mineral substances,—chiofly, 18 is,shown, from ymogar iteelf, The person selling the rccipe, in stating the cost at 10 conts,.commits & small error, knowingly or wil- fully. .Of coursc, uo intelligont, thinking por- son aught to be deceived by any of their claus, for they hava nover been kuown to sell » dollar’y warth for a dollar. Lasl year a follow mado a good thing in salling & mixtyre of nitric and’ muiintio acidy,—a mix- turo;{hat i found in eyery tin-shop, to bo used in tho goldering of old tinwaro in the placo of rosiu. A two-ounce vial of this was parfed with for 31, and the women taught’ how tp mond thoir old tin-pans ; but, a8 fow becamo oxport at tho business, the pans continuo tp go to the village-tinnor, a6 ususl. In this way the Gran- gors aro boing let into n great numbar of dollar socrots.that the outside world are not supposed to bo ableto obtain, “THE WEATIER AND OROTH. On tho 4th e bud o goneral rain in this part of the.State, that was of groat valup to tho orops, of wlhich tho corn, buy, and late-sowed oats bogan to show tho need,” Sinco thon the weathor Ly boen rather cloudy, and everything has mado o good growth, ‘The stand of corn 8 good. - A fair broadth has beon planted, :{mt ko nothing like the crop of I8T2 old corn is gotting woll roduced, snd will all Lo out of the way of tho new arop, * Who small graius all look woll, and tho hay-crop will nluo be a fair ouo, Novly-tot troos aro doing woll, though tha lata dry woathor has boon rather hard on the young hiodges, but these will now improve. _‘Cho pota- toos are coming in yory flund and Early Roso have Leen in blossom some days, and will be ready for market in & weak, Lo rasp- Lorry - and blackborry mnever . prosented a botter ehowing for an imwmonse yleld; in faot, I do not remember over boforo to hiuvo Bopn 8o goad & prowpoct, Tho chiersy-orop 18 moderate, thongh mlbg archards aro qnite full, while most of" the old treos have boou cut down. Tho apple-orop will bo vory light. Haying I8 {ust at hand, and ryo will-be ¥ipein a weel, and'wintor wheat will soon follow. Hands are abundant at $20 por month and bonrd, The country is, on the wholo, in most oxcellent con- dition,’ Runan. ) A Lordly Brute. After the battlo of Scdgmoor,—which, It na bo remembered, yvas the last fopght on English ground,—somo foarful uots of oruolty wore perpatrated by the Royallsts under Lord Fover- ghaw, whioh at the Xruuont timo sy #oem al- wmost incredivlo, wmong the prisonors who were taken afier the fight wes o fino young man _lmhllufi‘uu Linulgn's commission undor tho Duke of Mouwmouth, pud it was roprosented to Lord Foveruhan that o could show extraor- dibpry fouts of agllity. With s promise that his lito bhould bo .spnrod ho, sub- plvted to bo strippod, when.ono end of o halter was Tastened roungd hi neck, aud the other gonnd that of & wild youpg celt. Nan snd Lprro sturtod at o furious rate along the marahy ground, svd had Ymcumludn disfanee of throc. yuartors of u milp when tho horso foll lausted, Tho young mun pow glalmoi iy par- «don, but the inhuman Gouneral ordered him to bo immodiately hapged, L'ho spnce through which the man kopt up with the horse .(snys Mucanlny) 8.5t markod by well-known bonnds on the moor, 'Tho uativos.af tho Zoylands al:ank of the '“Whito Luly,” who was long soun | saboug tho srout giAve, dronsed in whito, and who died, bereft af rouson, at Wentou, botrothed of this young soldier, Blio waatho} atod pnd givon vaio ' groups of “this charnotor; but, boyond thip stratgonoss of tho opuo, nothing unploasank oc- prrd. > e THE AMZRICAN PILGRIMS, S e SUNNER, Jahn G, Whittlorts Poom, Rend nt the Sume nor Demprinl Norvico in Hoaton, June D, ¥1am not ouo who has disgraced boauty. of sent- ment by deformity of conduct; or.tho mnzimaiof n roomi by tho petipus of lavo; Lutchy Lo grace of God, T hivo'kept my lifo tnmulliod."—ilijfon’s Defgnea of thé People of Engldnd, 0 Mothor Btato] tho winds of Marcly wlhlhw n‘ll"l 6‘;; A\Ihllrl’ll'l f‘d l;i‘flflfl inge, rlow, nesth o leadon nar A O aky, thy moymming ohildren trad, And now, With all thy wondain leaf, "Tiiy Detdn n flowos, owido thy dead “Thoi Ffttest, du fhy robes of griof,’ Adtachiol yob uncomforted | And enco agatn-tho organ swalls, Onco,mozo tho flag in halt-way'iing, And yel again tho mournfyt bofts Tn all tby steople-totvors aro rung, And J, obeilient to.thy will, "Havo como a simplo wreath to lay, Buporfluous, Composition of the Band =4~ Fath Dealy and Bishop Dwenger, How ‘the Pilgrims Amused -Them~ selves During the Voyage, Quasi-Conversion of larrel!-mid Palm- | er, of “Black=Crook”- Fame, - Programmeo of Ballgioils Bervices on Shipbonrd. Bpecial Correspondencs of The Chfeago Tribune, L OX BOARD BTFAMER PEREIRF, ¥ T Havne, May 27, 1874, t T.nst yonr o pilgrimago of English Catholios— ohiofly noblomen's familics, carefully solocted for thoir soolal standing—left Liondon for Paray- lo-Dionial, ono of the Fronch shrinos, aud mot with 80 much notico by the way asto sot a fash- jon In tho matter of pllgrimages which our Amorican Catholics hpve hastorled, with that talont for {mitation of anything oble or snob- bish for which we Americans aro fo famous, to copy. A puggostion of o pilgrimago of Amorican Catholica to Romo was thrown ont goveral weeks #go in a Oatholio journal of Now York. Numor. oua roplies woro called fortl, and, attor tho rojec- tion of munny applications, the roduction of tho number originally proposed, the band of pilgrimp now on board the Poreire, in tho harbor of Havre, waa formed. 1t fan’t an arlatocratio band, or & onobbjsh, like its English modol, A more demogratic band I dofy you to colloct from all parts of the country; and ou o grava that atill ith pll.tho flowerd of May, Xtako, with awo, tho task assigned; 1t mpy be that my friond might miss, Iu lits xiow apliete of heatt and mind, omp tokon'from my hand fu flfs, Dy many a tendor memory movail ‘Alotig thio past my thought I aond Tho rocord of tho cause hie loveil In {lio beat xooard af its triend, ' What hiath Leen satd, X can bt an; Al Jinow the work thet brave mah did, ¥or ho wan opeu ns tho dayy ) Aud notbing of himaell ho hids No trumpat founded dn his ear,-— Tlo niw hot Stun('a cloyd and Game; But toyor yot o Mebrew scer A clearor volco'of duly camo, Godenid: “Broak thou theso sokoa ; 1do Theso hoavy burdens. T orduin A york to last thy wholo 1ifa through,— - A ministey of strifo aud pain, “Torogo thy.drcams of Joltered ene,— Put thou thio scholar's promiso by 3 Tito righs of tman aro mora than theao,” He licard, and answored : 4 Horo amI 1" Ho ot bl faca pgninat the binat, is feot against tho fiuty shard, il (Lo Lard soryice graw, al lnst, 1ts own sxeooding groaf Toward, * Thie fixed star of his faith, through all Yoas, doubt, and perl, shonothio same, As, through & night.of storm, some tall, JBtrong light-houso Jfts its pteady.fiamo, AMORY INGONGRUOUS MASS, of human naturo was nover boforo confined at ges, Tho mannor of forming tho band movita- blyled fothis incongruityin social position, eduqation, opinion, pud evon nationalily. Thore aro balf-a-dozen differont nationalities on board. Tathor Doaly, sn_ Irish-Amerioan pricst, of tho Bocloty of Jesus,—a vory lonrucd, anstoro man, —honds & delogation of Irish and Trish-Ameri- cans from Now York and New Jorsoy. Bishop Dwonger of Fort Wayno,—n burly, good-natur- od, in factajolly divino,—has s followiug of Gormans - mainly,. though thero dro sevoral Amorlenns from tho West also with him. Judge “Theard, of New Orleans,—a Tronch Oreole, and ovidently aman’ guporior fo tho majority of thosoin tho band,—is the contral /figuro of & numerous _delogation from Louisinda and Mis- Boyonil tho dust and smoke 1o saw Tho slicaves of Froedom's largo Increats, Tl ol fatcs of Equal Law, Tlio Now Jerusloin of Peace. No wafl wan in hiu voico,—none heard, Wlion Treason’s starm-clotid blackest Thie wonlaiess of & doubiful world; ils duty, aud tho,end, be kuow. Tho first {0 smite, tho first.to apare ‘Wien onco thio hoatile cnsiyna fell, . g ptrotched out hands of generous chre o 1ift tho foo ho fought 80 well. arow, slusippt, Tho Vicar-Gonoral of Toxay lefidu 8 mgrlg:nm Zu;fi%lah ;;mn;‘\fl!, small group of Bpunish-Awericans, who dress 'flv‘ ad plan TForpivh i thing raonal, like rancueros, and talk a g(,hhnrlsf} thich ap- i3 hn‘:gd“only wfi_“al.g o Man. poars & mystory to most of the othor passcugers, Capt. A, G. Claty, of the United Stales Novy, Is the ceutro of n group of natives from Baltimore, Wasbington, and Richmond. Singularly cnough, sovoral of tho lntter delogation bolong to TIE BEMMES FAMILT, of Virginia snd Alabama; aud, a8 wo passod Uhorbourg this morning, tho sceno of tho final discomfiture of tholr piratical cousin, Raphnol Semmes, of Alasbama famo—thoy noted tho fa- mous locality as curiously a8 tho remainder of tho passongors, Two sous of this family—students at the Josuit Colloge pt Goorgetown, D, J.—ara delognted a8 Gtandard-boarors of the pilgrime, and will bonr into Jlomo andto the Yatican an American flag ombollished with sovoral religious mottos, The exaob propriety or elgnifieance of 1his I do not know, but the pilgrims attach coneid- orable importauco to Lokl -tho act of taking the Amorioan flag nufurled through Victor Emauucl’s dominions into beleaguored Romo E‘s 00d Cath- olics look on it) and to the fact thatitis borno by boys, whoso fathers, loss than o docade ago, perislied in fighting. . AJNONG OTHET OFFEBINGS borne by tho ‘pilgrima are 15,000 francs in gold contribiited to tha Popo by thie Catholic Union of New York,.aud 5,000 franoe subscribed by tho Xavior Oollugo Bodality, also of Now York, At Toourdes, whithor' the pilgrims go ou_loaving Daris, to visit tho shinno of tho Sacred Henrt of tho B'Iegsonl Virgin, o haart made of gold, about helf o foot in digmeter, will be doposited. 1t is & contribution of the students of st. Joln's Collego at Fordham, N. Y., and tho name of ench student 1a°ongraved upon tho offering. Each pilgrim conveys somo individual oipring tothe sbring at Lourdes, theorotically in redomp- tion of some vow mado to the Virgin. Notwithstanding the peouliar 'lncongmxty in charactor of tho pilgrims, thoy have dwelt to- gothor during tho tedions ten dsys past in sin- gular unanimity and harmony. FATHER DEALY AND DIBHOP DWENGER both olaimed to-bo tho offlcial hioad of the band, —~—tlio formor as-tho specisl delogate aud -repre- sontative of' Archbishop McOloskey, of New York; tho Iatter s tho ranking divino present. No sorious dispute resulted from theso claims,— Tather Doaly g'rncutulli' ylolding the loadership to the Bishop. The X'ather, however, hag lod sorvices in tho firat cabin, and the Bishop has devoted his timo io the conduct of services in tho socond cabin, That is, what timo e has not .dovoted to smoking, and to goneral goad:na- tured discnssion on the decl aund in the suiolk- ing-room, Tho ~Bishop has been tho so- cil lifo of tho ship, 'rolloving tho voy- ago of much .of its -monotony by his conatant fund of good humaor. In fact, the pil- grims gencrally have boon anything but tho Tegulption sackeloth and sandal-footed ideal pilgrim of the past, The modern pilgrim smokes, el digoussos politos, roads tho papars (tioy Jeft Now York with Wilkes' Spirit in hand, and woro the first to try Za Vie Darisienne whon we touohod at Brost), and nu?oya Dimself gonorally. As.for tho pilgrimesses, thoy play cards as well a4 thoy count boads ; and two of -tho progtiost &1 wight eay tho ouly two protty oues) have ip- ulged in tholiveliest sort of iunacent ilirtations with two ontgide barbarians from Now York, Tho fxst day out, ono of ‘the priests gang one or two comio songs for the amuepment of tlhres or four othors, sud certainly succoeded, if their laugh- tor was any saqrt of indication that {boy onjoyed the fun or music. Whether the spirit of fun or the roligious fervor of the pilgrims was tho at- traction or not, I .do nob know'; but Imay add that ong rosult of tho voyngo has boon s quasi conversion of BESSRS, JARRETT & PALMER, + manngers of Booth's Theatre, and formorly of Niblos Garden ungor the old.and long regime of *¢Tho Blagk Orook.” The former was always of a roligious mood ; and Palmer, who Is' looked upou as the * wicked partnor ' In the coucorn, lus froquently attendod dovotious on shipboard, and has made vows to ahandon the production of spoatnoloy at his thantre. Blshop Dwouger, in conversation with the two managors, whose connection with ** ‘I'ho Black Crook™ he knew notling about, stated at lengthhis love of good historical and moral dramns, and his uttor ab- liorrouge of muoch dobauing plays as ¢ ThoBlack Orook.” Palmor, who hates giving up his favar- ito sine (and bpofluhflolm)' ondeavored to con- vinco tho Bishop that *The Biack Crook,”" as Tio bad seon it in Fort Wayne, was an abortlon’; but, in the end, couflded to the Bishop his in- tomltunbtn ?bnngn&n{::‘uu‘lnltn.—dngdtlnz (Hm. an oye to busingss) that he intonded to produco in Wipsrallotod migioonco tho tavdard deamas | A% whon the baws auptomp bad come, with such artists as Dooth, Jefferson, MoOul- Tu that lnst pang of martyrdom, lough, Cushinan,.oto, ‘His care was for tha Lalf-frecd slave, 7ik RELIGIOUS SERVICES hold on bonrd by tho Pilgrims havo cousiated Not vainly dusky honds upbore, 3 Tn prayor, the pussing soul 1o Heaven, of the following First—linoh morning nt dnybroak, masses Whoso nioray o o guferiug poor woro i i ot ‘,?lnfi,_m,flml’, Dluln o il Was soryico to the Mantor givon, olating n the second where the majority of tho he good Biato's annals toll, )ngflgm worshipod ; and Father Dealy m tho x‘;?gr'gh‘l‘l‘d‘rmmfllmnn Jong ho teught, Ilm cabén, whera tho Iadles warahiped, 1low, praised or blamed, ho guarded well Seeand—Altor bronlfast onch morning, aplrit- ‘Fhio trust Lo neither ghunned nor sought, ugl moditations on the princlpal iruths of the virtuos of tho Baorod Hanrt of the Blossod Vir- Elu, i the firsf cabin; and inatructions.by Dishop WONROr on tun\u‘ntiau of roligion, in the goc- Tho ald traditions of his State, "Tho memorien of -lior groat and kood, ook from hia lifo p fresbor dute, “And in himsolf emboiled Ataog, Tow folt the groed of gold and plsce, Tho.venal crow that achemed and planncd, Tho fino scorn of that hnughty face, The spurning of that briboloss a1 1 thpn Rome's Tribunes stateller 1Mo wora' Iis Senagarlal rab ‘Hislofty port was ail for her, “Tho ono dear spot on all tho globe. I to the master’s-plea ho gave Tho vaut contempt his manbood folt, Hoapwa brothr i tho slave,— - Wit Nan o8 Equal man ho Proud was ho? If his presencokopt Tts grandour whoreso'er ho trod, - Awif from Plutnrel’s gallery steppod “Tho hioro snd tho demi-gad, Nono fadlod, at least, £0 oach his onr, Nor want hor wao appasled In vala ;* Tho homiesfek soldlor uow hia clicer, ‘And blessod hitn from his ward of paln, Batoly bis dearest frionds may awn Tue alight defeots hio nover bid, Tho urfaca-blomich o the stond Of tho tall, stately.pyramid, Suffico it that ho nover hrought Tiis conseienca to tho pithife marts Bt lived himself the trutl ho tavgh ‘White-souled, elean-handéd, puse. Wit if hio felt tho natural prido ‘Of fioiwer in_noble se, too truo With thin bumilities to lildo Tho work ho did, 1o ore io knew Waa honot Just? Was sny wrangod By that asauced solf-estimate? - Tio fook but what to him belanged, Uncnvlous of anothor's state, ‘Well might he heod the words ho 4 And Acan with caro fhe written hago ‘Through which he still shall warm and waka ‘The hooaxts of men {rom ogo-to 8go, Al who ahall biamo bim now becausa e nolacod thus Lis hours of pain{ tioul nat tio o'erwarn throslier piuss, ‘And hold to light his goldon grain 2 o senso.of humar dropped its ot On flio liurd ways hia pirposo wrent; Bmall play of fancy lightencd toil 3 g spako slono tho thing ho mesnt, Ho loved his haoks, tho Art that hints A bonuty volled behind-ita own, Tho graver's line, tha pencils {ins, “Tho chiscls sapo ovoked from Atone, o cherished, void of selfish ends, The soclal conrteaias that blens And nweston lifo, and loved his frionds With most unworldly tenderness, ‘heart, iBut atiil hia tired oyos rarely loarned Tho glad roliof by Naturo bronght Xor mountain-ranges never turned Itis curront of poraistont thouglt, ho aen xolled chiorus to i apopan & ¥ Tho plne-grove wmq&-d "5 bin fhome ‘Where'er hé wandered, rock and beach ‘Wore Forum.and the Acaglemo, 3 Tho sonations Joy frar all thinga fatr 1i{n stronuoua,bent of soul roproased, Aud loft from youth to silvorod hair Toyr hours {or pleasure, nano for reat, For all his ife was poor withont : 0 Nature ! make tho Inst amends ; “Train oll thy fowors his geave sbolit, And make thy singing birds his friondag Revive aznin, thou Bummer-raip, Tho Lroken turf upon hia bod | Breathe, Bummer-wind, thy tendoreat sirain Of low, swoet music overhiead | Nor cant nar poor salicitudes Biado weak i Iifels groat argnument; Small lelyuro bis for frames g moods " Who followod Duty whoro ahe wont. The braad, fair fields, of Goil he saw Hoyond {ho bigot's narrow honndy The truths lie molded {nto Taw, In Clrist’a bosutitudes Lo folind, 15 Blato-craft waa ho Goldon Ttulo, Hls rlght.of voto n sacvod trust; Olear, ovér threat and sidicule, All'henrd his challengo: *Ta it Just 0 1f for ano momont turned thy face, 0 Mother, from thy son, not Joug 110 wallod calruly in hia pifice’ ’ T suro remoraa which follows wropg. Foraiven bo the Blato ho loved Tlio‘ono brlef 'Iapse, thio aliglo Ulot § Forgotton bo.the staitt romayod,— Jigr rjghted rodord shows it uof, d gubin, b Tlird—After the noon lunch of oach day, tho Ttosary of the Blessed Virgin was recited, ™ /4 Fourth—In the ovening, tho Litauyof tho Buints in tho first calondar was roaited. Lho lelurimu ware too siok on the flrat Bab- bk aftor eailing to attempb mass; but, on the .sogond Bunday.out,-no Joss than ve wore said,—! Jthe flrat by ]J‘atlmr}}. Horin, Buporior-Gonaral, of Tndinan; Futhier Johu ™, boGullum, of Took: ynj Eathor Jullan Benoit, Viear-Goueral, of In-i dina j—ond two by Bishop Dwenger, ono of; whiak was attendod by.the snilors of thio Pexeire, ‘I sorvivos hnve occasloned some 4 .OURIOUS BOENES in tho first onbin, Among tho passengors wero! thorumunnts of & Now Orlcans opera-troupe, u annbor.of SJ""’M' gamblors, and othor gronps of tho wicked, When tho | x'lgrlmu wera farced: SRS S to hold -worvives in the first cabiy, they found —Tolado has & shrewd businoss man, who buys thomselves surranuded by thozo various groups, | .qor tlukats for 84 por huudred, He jts near the induiglng in.wongs, kono,.cards, and .domings )| box where the fare is vut, and obligingly places while, :at almost every .table, wine cirouluted’ tbhaG-oonk niokels of tho passongors in i pook- Jracly. On Bunday n{ ht last, the devotions;| ot and one of his Hojate iv the box, thereby ] wore'conduotod sustounded by & hall-dozen o5 0 nunking & olear proflt of 1 cont on each, oIy ‘Tho Jiftea sworil above hor shield With jealous care shall guard his fames A'ho pine-treo on her analent fleld ‘Poall the winds shall speak his namo, Tho aarbla imago of hor son ilor Toving hands stisll yoarly crown, And from her plotured Panthoi 1ls grand, mojestio faco look down, 0 Biato so passtug rich botare, Who now shll dopbt thy highost clatm Tho world that counts thy Jopolu or Kl longos pauso at Hunner's pamo ! * | roadside. Xt wis s good ‘many years afler An- T i | misor, and never gpeaks to any'ono, if ho can avold it l ., "Do you khow him, grandmn P anld ono of 'tho young Indfes, #Yeb, my dear,” roplindl ‘Annotto; “for it waa ghe, o wora playmates whott 56 wore ohil- dren, tBnt:Jicques:hnd o fover, and atier that . row vory.odd and molanchioly, At Inst ho bogan . Lo graw ponutious; _and for many yenrs ho fing Lodn known s ‘ {ho miger. ‘I have not spoken avith him sinco my marringo,—whioh you know - wan just Aty yoars.ogo. to=dny,—ond haye only soon him ogcasionslly on the stroet,” Twa doys later .o otowd of porsons—men, women, and_chiliron—might have boen seen in front of tijo little dwolling-hioure whero wo firat introduced our readers- to 'Jacques Guyot aud -8 mother, “I liva next door thoro,” said a.carpontor, in . bla slirt-slcoves, nud without a hat on his head; “and my wifo has scon KO ONE ADOUT Tilk NOUSE THESE TWO' DAYS.” THEMISER ‘OF 'MARSEJLLES. . OHAPTER I, * Yo, you-havo baon vory .11, my chii i‘lladnmn Gyyot, a8 sho hiold the mug to the bo; Jips, k ‘* Lepn gnly remombor that: Ij soomel to.he, \burnlog wp ; and my mouth I8 stitl o dry and it parched I" roplied Jacquos, 5 b *Yon ealled continually for wator, and would somatimos scraam ot the Lop of your yoieo. But, sthank Floayon, you.aro betler now, doar; aud stho dootor thinks you wiil goon bo woll again.” | “I am o thiraty | anid I do not holiave another, oup of ,water would do aoy harm,"” spid tho la + #No, Jaoqugs, not noy,” auawored {ho.moth.' er, soatbingly. **You must wait awhile,” | +Thoro was a knock at tho front door, Madame, ' : X7 ” Ghiyot Joft tho ohamber, and found tho Doctor] ynalmfhy Rmfl’l‘:lnd.n mum::‘rl, fl.‘to ?‘x{ny ulg‘:g walting to.bo admittod. Aftor convorsing for,n' |-8omo monoy; -and:hio in always, prompt in -Buals matiora, -**Aud ho 8aid ho wonld call at my shop to col leot the ront,” romarked s {nilor; *‘and ho hosu's - beon noar-sinco,” . v ‘4 That's not like bim," added suother. - /* Somo- thln(f'u wrong when Jacques Guyob jan's opn baud to recolve tho manoy.” X An oflicer had arrived; and thoy prococded to “forco tho lock of tho front:deor.” “Thero was n strong iron bolt muide ; aud tho entranco was \effootod with #omo difliculty, Nothing .was Jfound In tho first room bub .a parrot, which . scomad to bo delightod .to so0 tho now-comors. % Poor duoques! ‘it sald, | | *“poor Jueques!® T'hen, on seoing two or throa 80id the other, . cuirtly, .ag'|.boys in -tho_erowd,:tho bird .crcamed, **Bad lhfiy went to tho room in which the patient Iay.' | Loys; poor Jacques!,Bad boys ;; poor Jucques ' any days passed, and . Jacquos was still con-!| -Ior.a minute or two thioro was a profound fined to tho houso, Ilis thirst continued une- | Ailouco; not a stir or whispor broke the stillnoes. \bated.; and.al longth Madsmo Guyob told him | FTho oflcors then appronchiod - the ohambor, the .thio y:on80n sho wes unablo to gatisty it, o ro- [-door ofwhich was-al lfihely afar, Xt was pushed mained gflont fora ' long timo, aud ab last in- |.opon;iand.eagorly:tho crowd gazed into tho qujred, thougbtfully, ** Maramn, doos every one | room. -Thoresvas tho old man kuecling in front Htudlor 80 mutch from thirst as 1 do " of .n great iron chost, his head Lent forward, and “ A greft mauy people do, my son,". rejoined | ono hngd on tho.ouge of the box, whilo tho othor d graapod au the mothdy, ** especiaily the poor.” “ WWhy mama, I thought wator was froo . to’ OLD, NROWN-T.OOKING PIECE OF PAPER. 1 Thon the nuthorities wora sont for, -an o), liko'nirand lght! Do puoglo lave tobuy | % investigation mado, and proces-verbal drawn up, it, like 'housos and things to eat?" **Not oxnctly,” sho returncd, & littlo puzzled. | to the effect that tho defuuct.bad cometo his doath by heart-disoaso. It was ovidontly a new thought to her. _Aftor,n ‘minyto sho continued, * Water fu froe; Jacquos; | /hio panor he held was a vary old .document, bt tio abor of progtring is must be' paid for! | wid 50 fudd that it was soarcoly logible, Dl Thio rich can.afford to dig wells; .and you know | decessed Lad, apparontly, takon It out to_exam- a fow of .tho woalthier class’ lave aquoducts, | W0 it ; and bo bind writien down at tho claso ol ,tho will—for euch it wne—the smouut of hix Which bring water from snripgn or lakos in the g country. Whon thero is n’drought, .thoy ‘sro. _lll";":;."-h and tho manuor in whieh it was jo- vest amply supplicd ; whilo tho poor depond on th ¥ " | "i'ho” offioor who . diracted .tho proccedings publio wolls, and these always givo out first,” % winy 18 THERE NO PUBLIC AQUEDUCT 2" +|-was a man far advanced in years. Jo had asked tho lad, been 1o comrado..of Jacques'. in their boyhaoa, * Becaugeo those who fool the noedof it havon't | but bad lost sight of him for many years. -Thora f/ba moans to build oue.” woro tears, in tho old man's oyos.as. he hold up “Mamma,” sald Jacques, altor.n pause, ** you |-the instrumont, aud. said, in n shrill and broken voico, to tha motloy group which had assombled, oneo told mo that papn wos rich.' ( “ Yes, dear ; but his faotory.wag burned down | * My frionds aud townsmon, boro lios the body of & man.whom tho whole clty ridiculed and ¢ tho timo of tho great conflagration, ¢ : 2t tho th o gration, ton yourw | Sespleod oa b hosttloss misr. ' Tho boys hootad ago. “ ot bim in the strocts, sud pelted him with dirt and stanes. Pooplo. taught thoir very dogs to bark at him a8 ho passed. The poor upbraided lim; and the rick sncorad and poiuted tho fingér of seorn at him.as they rode by, in thoeir coachies. Lot mo reag you £ U8 WILL.” He pausad ¥o wipo his spoctacles, and thon be- : gan in o moasurel tone,— o “ MansEinLes, Aug. 1, 1775, “When I'was.a child, I foll:ill of a fovor, and during myrocovery suffered intonsely from thirst, ~There Lind boon -n severe 'droungls -for maoy moutha; and the water, always: poor in quality, - wag almost -wholly exbausted. At that time my amother.told mo that many hundredsof the poorer oluen suffored in:tho samo woy. -She aluo told e that my fathor and many othors had lost their : property:by fire, chiofly bocauso thoro was an in- sufliciont_supply ..of water to extinguish tho .flames. :For thoso reagons, I bequeath all my ‘property of every kind, aftor the psymont of my ust debts.and of. my funeral .oxponses, tomy . untive city of Marecilles, for. the purpose of pro- +viding watorworks which shall supply tha entire community {ree of :0xpenso. 4 Jacques Guyor." Aftor.a slight . pauso, the officor continued: «Thig i tho original. document, and s much ‘:lr(i?l:]c ‘What Luball now read was apparently written Jfow momonts about tho. Invalld, sho askgd, . g thoro no,means of alloviatiug Lis intense. suffor-! ing from thirat P **You may allow him to’drink - freoly now,". roturned tho physiclan. " NUT THE WATER 18 EXHAUSTED, + and tho suthorities dolo.dt.out hut oucen day. | Tho Doctor - paused - thoughtfully, and:said ““They aro oompolled to do o, Tho drough continues ; and it is fonrod the supply wil sco; Lo wholly ot off,” g 2 * Joan thinks tho firo lust, night might baye' boou arrestod buv for the acarcity of wator," ' No doubt of jt," ‘Why didn't papadnild an_aqueduct for the' poor whon bo was able? * enid tho boy. | 1t would cost o great deal of monoy, my chlld,” she replicd; *“and we did not fcol tho need of it thon." 2 *If thoro hind been lllmzt{ of water, couldn's hia fuctory have beon eaved 2™ . # Porhaps it 1nlght,” rosponded the mothor ; “for it wns belioved ab the timo thnt tho firo wolild brvo boen extinguished if thero hiad boon o sullicicnt supoly of :water. Ihoro had been n sovero droughe that summer: and autuwn ; and the rich.were airaid to .allow Lho firemon to uso thelr roservolxa, At that time Jenn Guyot -ontered ; and, a8 ho conversed, with hia.wifo onhouschold .matters, . dnoquen roolivad on Jonugo by tho,opon wine doy, phsorbed in thoughi. ,J(llmquqa’, recovery was slow ; and his suffering. mado ; A DEEP AND/LASTING THPRESSION 3 onhismind. Tinolly they wero compollod to -us0 water so muddy and . brackish that even tho JBwine ywould hardly accept if, aave.in tho Iast ox- ‘tremity. 'Iho boy’s moral powercame to bis aid, after tho convorsntion ‘ubove -related ; -and he -ptruggled manfully to conguer J:fl ‘pationce what .appesrod:to havo ro othor inunediato remody. CHAPTER 11, A dozon years have olapsed since the cvents recorded in tho ‘lnst chuptor, Jean Guyot is -dead, " :His sou'is now a.young - man of 23, and is .stauding by the vory bed -in-tho littlo ghamber wwhore.wo firat mads his sequutntuucs, Madumo _Guyot, s lying.on the. couch, .and the, old dootor is at Jacques' sido. * Dear Jucques, I'-am golug;” sho -murmured -almost innudibly, ' ¢+ aud yot £ 'would gladly huvo soen yon and Aunotte murrred before my death ; but-Heaven's will bo dono.” - Tho son did nob -roply, -He knolt -by tho ‘bodside, and held is ariothor's band in his, It was your fathor's wish,” sho continued. # You wore -betrothed in eerly . childhood. Her-patonts died soon after;-nnd siio -went to livo with hor unclo, who haa nover favored your union,” Jacques was -gtill silent ; and she bro- coeded, ‘“Biuco your -illugss, the -yoar of tho last groat druufiht,‘you aremuch changed in charagter. ‘You have grown:melancholy, and T hovotried in vain-to bring back your naturally- cheerful tompor., Remember .my -last requost, Jacques ; 5 X REMEWDER YOUR DUTY TO ANNETTE.” In -n few days nll .was over, and the young man wnas alono in -the world; .und -yob why -should he remain.s0? Holmadn comfortablo ‘house «to live in; aud ‘his pros- pocts waro bottor'than thoso of lis class, for ho waa both industrious and oconomical. In fact, Jlie waa alroady kunown as penurious ; and peoplo snid bo way constantly ,‘;m\ving fike his unclg,~— an.old miser who had lived in & garret for fifty i;uru. nud diod very rioh, 'bofore Jacquos way orn. ON THE DAY .OF JUS DEATH, - aud I8 vory briof: 4 Aga, 1, 1825, *‘ By oconomy aud Judusiry T Lave nuqlulmu i) fortuno of more than fourmillion francd; and. L boroby. give and boqueath the samo to the object sbove mamed, . - Jacques Quyor." Such 18 the pathetic story of Jacques Guyn: the mixor of. Marseilles.—J. 2. Temple in Oi «and New for Jun e i ‘THE REVOLT-OF THE WATERS. Mill'River, May 16, 1874. 0 tho smoothily-slining water! O tho softly-sleeping water | Ouly yesterdd my oyes B -Baw the flagl of oars upon it, in tielr moeasured. fall . and zisp, Fax away thotoady separkle roso snd fell upon the Tiver, And T watchod lls upward quiver with'a Tapturous, slight shivar, Part delight and partsurprise, Wil .2 half-amilo - slowly brighteuing, -and o balfe thought slowly lightoning In 1y pleasured oyoe, .As 8 child might wateh a diamond, sunned o atill ita cries, Deantiful 1 namod (o river, and th,upward, fushing quiver, ‘And the rhythmic, glittering fall Of far oars upon the waters, and I leant, as to a call, 0 tho Ltn&chfrmll, aifll waler! O tho {erriblo, strong water Doadlier than & host in srmor n 18 reddost hour of Alaughter. ¥ \Would thatiwe had seon the sun darkencd era {t caurey as rus, 0 tho niyht beon full of thunder, wakening us, overy one ; Just some omen, darkly telling of tho danger we should shun, ‘But tho fair, doceitful water; but the treacherous, still ‘water «Orept and crept, and grew and gatherad, till its toy writh froth. was Juthered 3 Thep, with its sole strength for lover, mado unto iaelf -a door, And lespt through with angry roar, .0 the torrible l’:ong water! Traitorous tool of wreck (Onco fho patioktost of slaves; now its ferce, uplifted lm(ex‘;::"l‘l'l rocent mastors, work us nothing but dis. Alllvli:;:e:l:m;:. ?‘hl the wrack, growing out of one -0f nmnendumnlmul. Oh I for tho wailing, high aud low § Tor the burstiug of tho wators and .the learts and omes undono And “‘; pain sown 'twlxt tho rising and the setting of the aup, |, —Howard Glyndon in the New York Independent. pothie ot ik b Coltslircaxing ‘in Ientuclky. From the Dayton Journal, ‘When ln‘Knuluck‘f Inst woalk, o 8AW & 2-year- old colt broko—dend broka—in ‘s half hour, sa that he worked as aminbly as a trainod horse. Tho colt had nevor bgen bridled, Ha was at- ‘taohed to s curriclo enlled a * broak-dray,” and put -through nstonishingly quick, The brenk- .dray is nothing moro than a strong broad-tread droy, with long shafis, the iail omitted, and'a spring-sont botwoen the whools. The harncss w8 strong, and so arrangod over tho hips as to .provont the possibility of high kicking, and tho colt wau hitched so far from tha dray that his +heels could not possibly reach the driver, Tho ‘process of Litching wab of course very dellcato, as & colt 18 oxcessivoly ticklish, ond iy apt ‘to let his ‘heels fly awkwardly., All being -roady, ono man lheld the colt, and anothior took tho seat and reins. Tho colt way thon let go to plunge a8 ho pleased. The break- drey—which was g0 broad that upsetting scomed out of tho quostion—was-pushed upou the ‘colt, aud tho colt pushod sideways until ‘he started, A fow plunges wottled bim; ho went a8 ho loasied ; up il aud down'bill,’ and o _on, until Hn flually struck o sober trot, and was thorough- ,]{ broke. The confused and-bewildored look of that colt was pitifully amusing, Mr. Bob Stra- der was glving divections, and upon one of tha ‘brenkors raising his hand to slap the colt to urgo Lim, Mr, Strader said : * Don't do that. Nover atriko colt whon you are bronking him. Push him sidoways, or any way, Let him go just whore' ho -will and how ‘ho will. Lot him fall down if'ha will, but don't strike him.” Whon tho eolt wna takon -out of tho shnfts, he was as 1wt a8 if he had beon in water, and a child could have bandled him, o hud not loen struck a ablow, -ho dray, wo beliovo was invented by Mr, trador, —_— 'The Lion, Dr, Livingstono Is sald to havo exprossed the utmost contompt for Hons. * You talk ubout the majosty of tho lon," aald ho, chattlng one day ab o [mrty in London with Bir dmund Landscor, #hut you do not know tho beast. There is na moro majesty about bim in tho forest than there is about that poodle, It is all poetry, Lions aro urraut cowards—cowardly, sneakiny beasts, You cau hardly toll a lion from o donkey whon you come ppon kim in the forast; and if you cume upon & lon suddenly, his firat {inpulsa_is to tuck his tail botweon his legs and bolt, Ho will spring upon you if he comos upon you unnwaras, and ean havae timo to orouch, but {f » man has the vourage to look the lion jn the 1aco, you uced not oveu ¢ock yous riflo, * Ho'll bo & perfoot old curmuilgeon,” snid M. ‘Pardoo to his wifo, as Aunetta was eutoring tho Jhouso in_company.with a handsomo young uan, Jaoques:had just loft, and was still visiblo, walk- iug away from.the houso, “What o contrast! " eaid Andamo Pardee, e Arfll Ithink Viotor.is much attached to the irl. “CAttached!" oxclaimed tho husband; *fof course hojs. Aund Lo will soon becomo partnor Jin tho eatablishmont where he is now employod. Guyot ig a slow, timid.follow, who will never bo \mfl’h anythiug, Locausoho 1a-afraid to branch out.!” ** Uncle,” said Annotto, coming into the room, <1 Luvo smoit suado up'my mind that yau arg night. o . JACQUES 18 0 SLOW, and says ho.canuot afford .to bo ‘married for n year or two, Tho athar girls are all gotting mar- ried ; nnd thoy sy I am a fool to bo wo.patient:" # Whonovor you do mako wp your mind, just Tot us know," aaid the uncla stornl{. 130& loug after, Jacques recelved:Ele following note: . % * DEAR S1n ¢ Our-patience s exhausted. An- notto wishos me to say that-your lnst couvorsa- tion with hor had brought hor to o dooision ; and that your visite will bo no longor agrecablo, unless you conclude to bo mnrried duzing the prosent your. Very truly yours, “Jaugs Panpee” “Door child " paid Jacques to himself, “T foar nho is vory woak, and has boon lod away by tho fino words of that spondtheift.” Ho pacod the room nervously, and then threw himeclf on {ho lounge. 3 1 lad not tho gourage,” ho,aald, thonghtful- *| 1y, “to give her up, and with her thodiapo.of a lappy home, ~But it is hor own choice; and now I onn devoto my wholg life toshat one purposs formod so long ago,” ONAPTER 1IT. ‘Hore comes old dry-hones!” cried a ragged boy to his matos, as thoy wero at play by the notto's marringe. ‘' o1ve 17 0 umel” shouted anather, as he pickod up a bandful of mud, and, after rolling it into'a ball, throw it at av old man 'who was pagsing by, At this the boya all bogan to follow the example of their lopdor, Bomo throw sticks ; somo sand.and dirt; and ono or two sopt atones whizzing through the air, “'He's_an old ‘miser ' exolaimed one.of tho Iads. “ Mamma snys ho in," ‘¥ Ho {a tao mosn and ntlug{ to live,"” snid.one boy, botter dressed thon tho othors. My graudmothor goys ho starved his mothor fift yours ago, and Lins hated everybody pvor sinca.” A crowd of wrehjus bad noir gatherod arqund tho old man, and some of thom had pickad up Toug sticks, with whioh thoy aunovod hip. Ouc _Jad bad Jyocked off s hat; and, as tho man stooped to pick it up, tho woll-drossed boy ~ stroclk his cano, and knocked it into thio guttor, Several dogs woro in thoorowd; aud the boys set thewm on thoe old map, At this junoture.a carringo came up ; sud. in it thoro worp two young ladios, a man in the prime ot life, and au old ludy, #Papa,” enid oneof tho girls, *oan't you make those rudo boys lot tho poor man slona P ‘The gentleman Jooked out of the window, sod nmid,l"‘, Tor shawo, lads, to troublo a kslpless ol man “uE's AN OLD MISER|" ¢ Ho roba flo poox!" "# 1o livos in & garret!" 1o hnton overybody ! " shouted wauy nngor vojoes, ‘The old lady looked out and axclaimed ; “Poor Juoquasl fur he it fs, I amsuros how. chavgod! But the boys sre right: he iy a